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Vaccinium PENNSYLVANICUM. SMALL 
WiUILLOW-LEAVED WHuoORTLE-BERRY. 
SKK KEKE EK KEKE K EEE 
Class and Order. 
DecanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Vacciniex. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Cor. urceolata seu campanulata, 
limbo 4—5-fido reflexo. Anthere bicornes. Bacca 4—5- 
locularis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum ; humile, ramis floriferis sepis- 
sime foliosis, racemis subcorymbosis secundis nutanti- 
bus bracteatis, corollis brevi- cylindraceo -campanu- 
latis, calycibus erectis, foliis lanceolatis acutis glaber- 
rimis serrulatis nitidis (subtus precipua) subciliatis 
deciduis, germine disco elevato medio depresso. 
Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum. Lam. Enc, v. 1. p. 72. Mich. 
Am. »v. 1. p. 232. Torr. Fl. of Un. St. v. 1. p. 416. 
Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 2. p. 32. 
Vaccinium tenellum. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. p.12? Pursh, 
Fl. Am. v. 1. p. 288. | 
I noticed in my Flora Boreali-Americana the affinity of 
this very pretty plant with Vaccinrum corymbosum: it is, 
however, I believe, perfectly distinct, at all times a dwarf 
species, having peculiarly narrow, lanceolate, minutely, 
but distinctly serrulated leaves, quite destitute of hairs, ex- 
cept that the margin is a little ciliated, densely placed 
flowers, on very short racemes, and what I consider of 
greater importance, a shorter and more campanulate co- 
rolla, with a longer calyx, and a germen which is not at all 
superior, but presents merely an elevated, concave disk 
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